Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday vowed to improve the country's sanction-hit economy and its Covid response, saying that the current situation "does not befit" the Islamic republic. He delivered the remarks while chairing the first meetin...

Japan will halt the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine after reports of contamination in several vials, drugmaker Takeda and the health ministry said Thursday. Takeda, which is in charge of sales and distribution of the Moderna sh...

Max Verstappen will seek to exert a degree of home advantage by beating Lewis Hamilton to revive his title bid as Formula One returns from a mid-season summer break at the Belgian Grand Prix. The Belgium-born Dutchman saw a comfortable 33-point lea...

Teenage Ugandan swimmer Husnah Kukundakwe said she felt like she could "touch the clouds" after making her Paralympic debut Thursday -- and hopes it could change attitudes towards disability in Africa. Fourteen-year-old Kukundakwe, the youngest ath...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets Thursday with President Joe Biden at the White House to urge pressure on Iran's nuclear program and to shore up bipartisan support for Israel. Bennett told reporters ahead of his first state visit that B...

The youngest Paralympian in Tokyo took to the pool on Thursday looking to change attitudes to disability, as powerlifting and equestrian events kicked off on the second day of competition. In a reminder of the continuing risks posed by the pandemic...

Five tonnes of fish and crustaceans have washed ashore over the past 10 days at Spain's Mar Menor, once a lagoon paradise that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution. The sparkling saltwaters have spat out millions of dead or dying sea creatu...

As desperate Afghans crowd Kabul airport trying to get on any evacuation flights to flee the Taliban, officials have warned of another jihadist threat: the Islamic State group. President Joe Biden said there is "an acute and growing risk" of an att...

"William" is refusing to take a coronavirus vaccine because he fears Indonesia's military will use the country's inoculation programme to poison him and wipe out his fellow Papuans. Decades of conflict, racism and human rights abuses are fuelling ...

Western nations warned their citizens Thursday to immediately leave the surrounds of Kabul airport over a terrorist threat, as thousands of people try to reach a dwindling number of evacuation flights. Western nations warned Thursday of an imminent...

When Moise Cliff Raymond arrives at the Tuquesa River, he plunges in to wash off the filth from trekking five days through the perilous Darien Gap jungle in order to cross the Colombian border into Panama. The Haitian and his companions, who have j...

Asian markets fell Thursday as hopes for the global recovery and signs of a possible slowdown in new virus infections play off against the prospect of an end to Federal Reserve largesse and China's regulatory clampdown. Equities and oil have by and...

Star South Africa forward Duane Vermeulen is set to play again after a serious injury as the successful but criticised Springboks head to Australia on Thursday for major Rugby Championship challenges. The veteran back-row forward had ankle surgery ...

Australia on Thursday reported more than 1,000 new local coronavirus cases for the first time during the pandemic, as a Delta variant outbreak surged in Sydney. New South Wales state, which includes the country's most populous city Sydney, announce...

South Korea's central bank raised interest rates on Thursday, one of the first major economies to do so since borrowing costs were cut to record lows in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Bank of Korea raised its key rate by 25 basis points ...